Irenaeus, Siteadmin, Check users, oversight, Administrators
351,435
edits
Changes
no edit summary
Creationism is the belief that the Earth and everything in it was created by [[God]] or some other supreme being. Those that hold the views of ''Creationism'' are referred to as ''Creationists''.<ref>"creationist." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 21 Mar. 2007. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creationist>.</ref> Within creationism in the [[Abrahamic faiths]], there are various ideas. In regards to the [[Abrahamic faiths]], one form of creationism holds that the earth is approximately 6,000 years old and is referred to as [[Young Earth Creationism|Young Earth Creationism]]. The other form of creationism is called [[Old Earth Creationism]] and holds that the earth and universe are billions of years old. Creationist scientists believe that the [[First Law of Thermodynamics|first law of thermodynamics]] and [[Second law of thermodynamics|second law of thermodynamics]] argue against an eternal universe and they also claim that these laws point to the universe being supernaturally created. <ref>[http://godevidences.net/space/lawsofscience.php Evidences for God From Space—Laws of Science]</ref> Dr. [[Norman Geisler]] stated that "Both young- and old-earthers believe that God supernaturally, directly and immediately produced every kind of animal and human as separate and genetically distinct forms of life." <ref>http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/science/SC0305W3.htm</ref> Dr. [[Norman Geisler]] also wrote that "both young- and old-earthers who are [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] hold to the historicity of the Genesis account: They believe that Adam and Eve were literal people, the progenitors of the entire human race." <ref>http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/science/SC0305W3.htm</ref> Creationists scientists assert that the [[theory of evolution]] is in conflict with the evidence provided by the [[physical sciences]] and often cite secular scientific sources which agree with them on various points (for further details please see: [[theory of evolution]]).<ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/21</ref>
Creationism is the belief that the Earth and everything in it was created by [[God]] or some other supreme being. Those that hold the views of ''Creationism'' are referred to as ''Creationists''.<ref>"creationist." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 21 Mar. 2007. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creationist>.</ref> Within creationism in the [[Abrahamic faiths]], there are various ideas. In regards to the [[Abrahamic faiths]], one form of creationism holds that the earth is approximately 6,000 years old and is referred to as [[Young Earth Creationism|Young Earth Creationism]]. The other form of creationism is called [[Old Earth Creationism]] and holds that the earth and universe are billions of years old. Creationist scientists believe that the [[First Law of Thermodynamics|first law of thermodynamics]] and [[Second law of thermodynamics|second law of thermodynamics]] argue against an eternal universe and they also claim that these laws point to the universe being supernaturally created. <ref>[http://godevidences.net/space/lawsofscience.php Evidences for God From Space—Laws of Science]</ref> Dr. [[Norman Geisler]] stated that "Both young- and old-earthers believe that God supernaturally, directly and immediately produced every kind of animal and human as separate and genetically distinct forms of life." <ref>http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/science/SC0305W3.htm</ref> Dr. [[Norman Geisler]] also wrote that "both young- and old-earthers who are [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] hold to the historicity of the Genesis account: They believe that Adam and Eve were literal people, the progenitors of the entire human race." <ref>http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/science/SC0305W3.htm</ref> Creationists scientists assert that the [[theory of evolution]] is in conflict with the evidence provided by the [[physical sciences]] and often cite secular scientific sources which agree with them on various points (for further details please see: [[theory of evolution]]).<ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/21</ref>
Many non-Christian sects believe in a form of creationism, including American Indian religions, Hindus, and the Classical Greek and Egyptian polytheistic religions.
Many non-Christian sects believe in a form of creationism, including American Indian religions, Hindus, and the Classical Greek and Egyptian polytheistic religions.
== Creationism and Biological Information ==
Creationist and [[intelligent design]] advocates state the [[genetic code]], [[genetic program]]s, and [[genetic information]] argue for an intelligent cause in regards the origins question. <ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref><ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/infotheory.asp</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=118</ref>
Dr. [[Werner Gitt]], former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology ([[Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt]], Braunschweig), described human beings as the most complex information processing systems on earth and estimated that the human body processed millions of times more information each day than is contained in all the world's libraries. <ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i4/humanbody.asp</ref> Dr. Gitt wrote in his work ''In the Beginning Was Information'' that “There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.” <ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1484094</ref>
Dr. [[Walt Brown]] states the genetic material that controls the biological processes of life is coded information and that human experience tells us that [[codes]] are created only by the result of intelligence and not merely by processes of nature. <ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref> Dr. Brown also asserts that the "information stored in the genetic material of all life is a complex program. Therefore, it appears that an unfathomable intelligence created these genetic programs."<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref>
To support his view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of [[David Abel]] and Professor [[Jack Trevors]] who wrote the following:
{{cquote|No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In computer science, we call it a "program." Another name for computer software is an "algorithm." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even Mycoplasmal genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed?<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742</ref><ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958</ref>}}
As aforely mentioned, intelligent design theorist concur in regards to an intelligent cause in regards to the origin of biological information and that the genetic code, genetic programs, and genetic information argue for an intelligent cause in regards the origins of living organisms. Dr. [[Stephen C. Meyer]] argued that naturalistic explanations for the [[origin of life]] have failed and that inference to the best explanation for the origin of biological information is an intelligent cause. <ref>http://www.macrodevelopment.org/library/meyer.html</ref> In the peer reviewed biology journal [[Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington]] Dr. Meyer argues that no current materialistic [[theory of evolution]] can account for the origin of the information necessary to build novel animal forms and proposed an intelligent cause as the best explanation for the origin of biological information and the higher [[taxa]]. <ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2177</ref> The editor of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Dr. [[Richard Sternberg]], [[Smithsonian-Sternberg affair|came under intense scutiny and persecution for the aforementioned article]] published by Dr. Meyer. <ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2399</ref>
==Controversy==
==Controversy==